Green light for heritage centre in Cork

A €10m heritage and visitor centre which will transform the site of education pioneer Nano Nagle’s first convent has been given the green light.

It is hoped that work on the ambitious Nano Nagle Place project which will preserve and develop the Presentation Congregation’s historic South Presentation Centre in Cork city could begin within weeks.

The plan, which was approved by city council planners last July, was appealed to An Bord Pleanála.